| This thesis proposal investigates the shortcomings between the craft, the making, and the building within the architectural design process and promotes the possibilities of a more simultaneous approach to making architecture. The outcome will be the evocation of a skillset such as that of a hybrid between architect and builder, and will study and analyze the impacts of the proposed process on a specific project and the community in which it resides. The argument will be for a more synchronized approach when producing architecture and will attempt to curtail the amount of "copy and paste" drafting, and coordinating, while integrating the actual -- the tectonic building, the innovative making, and the embodied craft that is so sequential and arguably nonexistent within today's typical architectural practice.;The methodology within the architectural practice is inherently flawed, specifically related to the lack of control and understanding related to construction. There is an obvious disconnect between the entities of the builder and the architect. As a result, architects typically rely on books of graphic standard details, digital libraries of detail components, and 3D building information modeling software to convey their now "standard" intent. This linear process enables habits of "copy/paste" architecture resulting in standard buildings with standard detailing- no uniqueness, no response to context, just a homogeneous state of basic repetition no matter where the demand lies. By integrating explorations of building, craft, and "making" into the design process, one can argue the positive effects that it will have on the design, the architect, the builder, and the community. |
